Alright people Mark Ramprakash is not coming to IPL. Who is Ramprakash some of you might ask? Well, he represented England in the early 20th century before the First World War. No, I am just being sarcastic. Mark Ramprakash represented England between 1991 and 2002 sporadically giving glimpses of his much touted batting talent. He is currently playing first class cricket for Surrey.
Rajasthan Royals had communicated their interest in him to the Surrey management, which the county declined after giving it diligent thought.
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Michael Vaughan, the English captain with a puritanical countenance, has enunciated his displeasure at the IPL ban on English players. Vaughan feels that the ban imposed by the ECB is naïve. “I’ve heard so many people say that all the best players in the world are there and you want to go and play in it,” the English skipper said. His statement is a little out of the blue as Kevin Pietersen has been functioning as the English team’s official spokesperson on IPL matters hitherto.

Meanwhile, IS Bindra, member of IPL’s governing council and soon-to-be ICC’s principal advisor, bristled at the idea of English players rejecting their national contracts to play in the IPL. “We will not have any player revolting against their establishment and becoming part of the IPL,” he explicitly told BBC Sport.
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There is a distant possibility of an IPL-type league surfacing in England. Is ECB set to replicate the IPL model? Find out.

This coming Wednesday, English cricket honchos, will take part in an emergency meeting, which at face value is a meeting to salvage England’s Twenty20 competition from the rampant wave called the IPL that threatens to sweep all competition out of its sight. They will discuss possible measures to retain the competition’s position as the premier Twenty20 domestic tournament in the world. One possible measure, though very audacious, might be the establishment of an IPL-type league in England to directly take the fight to the IPL.
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